From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49089) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnNF1-0004FP-TW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:02:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnNEy-0006W7-1x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:02:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38584) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dnNEx-0006Vr-SC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:02:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 12:02:22 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170831110222.GH17315@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: <87r2w6eq5n.fsf@gmail.com> <87h8x1yox3.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20170830170941.GB24565@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <87bmmwi6r6.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> <20170831104710.GG17315@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts: Support building with Python 3 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Markus Armbruster , Stefan Hajnoczi , David Michael , QEMU Developers On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:55:18AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 31 August 2017 at 11:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > If we can update to python 2.7 as our minimum, then supporting py2 > > and py3 gets simpler, avoiding some of the nastier hacks, even > > without that though it isn't too hard. > > Unfortunately RHEL6 is what's holding us to retaining 2.6 > support, and googling suggests that doesn't go EOL until 2020... Who is actually requiring that we support RHEL6 until EOL though ? AFAIK, from Red Hat side, we don't need QEMU git master to be buildable on RHEL-6 machines anymore, since QEMU there is long since in bug-fix only mode, no rebases or feature backports. I assume there's probably some community interest in building git master on RHEL-6, but I think it is reasonable for us to say no at some point, rather than waiting until final EOL (2020 for normal subscribers, 2024 for people who paid for extended lifetime). Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|